Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume II - Part 1

Fragment ID: 11355

Yes [surrender to the formless Divine would leave parts of the being subject to the gunas and ego] – because only the static parts would be free in formlessness, the active nature would be still in the play of the gunas. Many think they are free from ego because they get the sense of the formless Existence, they do not see that the egoistic element remains in their action just as before.